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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Word has gotten out through the Girl Scout Mafia: quote Addams Family at the scary people in black clothes, and they'll buy boxes of Thin Mints.
Hrrmph. I wear black to work every day, and nobody quotes the Addams Family or sells me Thin Mints!
salaries normally compound
For values of "normal" that include no job I've ever had.
The Girl Scouts managed to miss me this year. No cookies. I am sad.
But I can't see being on the road constantly with an infant, or a toddler.
A lot of musicians do it. Kristen Hirsh took her kids out on the road for months at a time. Vaudeville families did it. There are a lot of things that are probably easier about it. If you're not stuck with a rigid job schedule, then juggling parenting and work is a lot easier.
Compound as in you get a raise, and frequently the raise is a COLA raise of N% of your previous year.
So if you stay out of work 5 years, you don't lose salary + 5*N; you lose (salary * 1.N) raised to the fifth power.
The Girl Scouts managed to miss me this year.
We have ones in our neighborhood this year. I answered the door last weekend to a pair of teeny-tiny baby Girl Scouts, who did indeed quote Addams Family at me. After I marked down how many boxes I wanted, they scampered down our front stairs calling out "Mom! Mom! We sold cookies to the witchy lady! She's nice!"
Awwww.
A lot of musicians do it.
A lot of musicians' kids are fucked up, too, though.
That came out needlessly harshly. But you know.
Though the flexibility is definitely an easier-making thing.
I wonder how Deadhead kids turn out? There must be some of them who grew up migratory.
Circus kids have it different, because the circus is a self-sustaining community that moves together from place to place.
Hee, Jilli! Yay for teeny little brave Scouts who now have a revised impression of witchy ladies.
Yeah, ours wouldn't be as bad as touring musicians, because we at least have the stability of going to the same locations again and again.
We'd have to homeschool, but I suppose we might have anyway.